Unit 3 Cultural Patterns And Processes Flashcards
Acculturation
when one group of people adopt the culture traits of another culture
Assimilation
The process through which people lose originality differentiating traits, such as dress, speech, particularities, or mannerisms, when they come into contact with another society or culture
Cultural adaptation
new people adapt to the culture of the previously existing people
Cultural core/periphery pattern
core-periphery idea that the core houses main economic power of region and the outlying region or periphery houses lesser economic ties
Cultural ecology
the place and location of a specific culture based on ecology
Cultural identity
Ones belief in belonging to a group or certain cultural aspect
Cultural landscape
the visible imprint of human activity and culture on the landscape
Cultural realm
The combination of the cultural traits that is in a group that spreads over an area
Culture
the body of customary beliefs, social forms, and material traits that together constitute a group of people’s distinct tradition
Formal region
An area in which everyone shares in one or more distinctive characteristics
Functional region
an area organized around a node, or focal point
Vernacular
A place that people believe exsits as part of their culture
Expansion Diffusion
The spread of a feature or trend among people from one area to another in a snowballing process
Relocation Diffusion
The spread of an idea through physical movement of people from one place to another
Innovation adoption
Study of how why and at what rate new technology spreads throughout a culture
Maladaptive diffusion
Diffusion of a process with negative side effects or What works well in one region may not in another
Sequent occupance
To refer to such cultural succession and its lasting imprint proposed by Derwent Whittlesey
Adaptive strategies
technology, ecology, demography, and economies that define human behavior
Anglo-American landscape
an American, especially an inhabitant of the United States, whose language and ancestry are English
Characteristics
a distinguishing quality
Architectural form
the look of housing, effected by the available materials, the environment the house is in, and the popular culture of the time
Built environment
The part of the physical landscape that represents material culture, including buildings, roads, bridges, etc.
Folk Culture
Culture traditionally practiced by a small, homogeneous, rural group living in relative isolation from other groups.
Folk food
traditional food
Folk house
common houses in America
Folk songs
traditionally sung by the common people of a region and forms part of their culture
Folklore
unwritten lore (stories, proverbs, riddles, songs) of a culture
Material culture
objects of natural or culural significance
Nonmaterial culture
abstract or untangible human creations of society (such as attitudes, beliefs, and values) that influence people’s behavior
Popular culture
the totality of ideas, perspectives, attitudes, memes, images, and other phenomena that are deemed preferred per an informal onsensus within the mainstream of a given culture, specificall Western culture of the early to mid 20th century
Survey systems
the system surveys are organized by
Traditional architecture
buildings that are generally thought of as traditional and old
Creole
a language that results from the mixing of the colonizer’s language with the indigenous language of the people being dominated
Dialect
regional variation of a language distinguished by vocab, spelling and pronunciation
Indo-European languages
a family (or phylum) of several hundred related languages and dialects,[1] including most major languages of Europe, Iran, and northern India, and historically also predominant in Anatolia and Central Asia.
Isogloss
A geographic boundary within which a particular linguistic feature occurs
Language
a set of sounds, combination of sounds, and symbols that are used for communication
Language family
a group of languages with a shared but fairly distant origin
Language group
a set of languages with a relatively recent common origin and many similar characteristics
Language subfamily
a smaller group of related languages within a language family
Lingua franca
A language mutually understood and commonly used in trade by people who have different native languages
Linguistic diversity
the more different the language the more diferent the people that speak them
Monolingual
Speaking one language
Multilingual
Speaker more than one language
Official language
The language adopted for use by the government for the conduct of business and publication of documents.
Pidgin
a simplified form of speech developed from two or more languages
Toponymy
the branch of lexicology that studies the place names of a region or a language. Books definition: Place name.
Trade language
A language used between native speakers of different languages to allow them to communicate so that they can trade with each other.
